BakedCatboy

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the warning you might be thinking of is that a breaker can fail to pop if an inverter/generator is on the same circuit as a high wattage device. Since some energy would go directly from generation to device, the breaker will only see the “net” energy consumption. So if the generator puts out 1500W and the device decides to draw 3000W, a 15A breaker only sees 1500, and won’t trip even though the device is pulling way too much. If the breaker was sized for the wiring, then the wiring to that outlet could catch fire due to the breaker not tripping. That’s the main reason I know of why a generator or inverter should be on a dedicated circuit, to force the energy out one breaker and in another, so that the breaker can see an accurate measure of energy and trip when necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally that’s fine and I agree, but one edge case that people overlook that I think is worth mentioning (and maybe what gp heard about and is trying to articulate) is that having an inverter or generator on the same circuit as a big energy consumer means that the breaker wouldn’t see the total energy being used by the consumer, and so it might not trip even if the consumer pulls too much wattage. That’s the main reason I know of why power sources should be on their own breaker - so it doesn’t hide power from the breaker but forces it to go out the generator circuit breaker and back in the consumer breaker so it can be protected properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve tried those but it seems like such a hack. Weirdly, the one handed “pull screen into reach” doesn’t allow you to swipe down across the notifications bar to open notifications, in that mode it only registers swipes that start from below the notifications bar. And the floating button gets a little unwieldy since it overlaps with the volume popup. And in the “show notifications” mode, the button opens notifications but doesn’t let you close them (once you press it twice for the “control center” it no longer does anything)

  Not to mention it doesn’t really help with the phone itself being uncomfortable to hold. I’m trying my best to vote with my wallet, but that has meant sticking with a Pixel 2 up until a few years ago, and the Pixel 5 was my “only 2mm taller” compromise - I completely overlooked the fact that the Pixel 2 screen starts like 1cm from the top while the Pixel 5 screen starts nearly at the top. The Pixel 10a is almost 10mm taller, so I’m not sure if I’ll be sold on it.

  I actually bought a OnePlus 6 something (t?) at one point fully intending to give in to a bigger screen but I hated it and returned it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use a case and I use Lineage. I’m not really concerned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  sad pixel 5 noises

  I’ve been waiting for a camera bump free upgrade, the 10a might be it but I’m reluctant to continue up the phone size escalator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My *arrstack DBs are part of my backed up portion, so they’ll remember what I have downloaded in my non-backed up portion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here, ~30TB currently but my personal artifacts portion is only like 2TB, which is very affordable with rsync.net, which conveniently has an alerts setting if more than X kb hasn’t changed in Y days. (I have my Synology set up to spit out daily security reports to meet that amount, so even if I don’t change anything myself I won’t get bugged)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for your service

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price gouging⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it might actually be photoshopped to look like a print, because that’s the same picture that’s on the Wikipedia page for Jesus Nut, with the same hand, background, and shadows, except on Wikipedia it’s obviously a metal part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ loses Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and 3D amid patent dispute⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only lament the loss of HDR DSNP webrips 😔 but at least we’ll still have HDR from UHD rips

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a way to remotely control my homelab without any internet access required⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The most notable difference is that meshtastic has range in the order of miles. At least 1 mile even with bad antennas but with other nodes nearby to repeat your messages, 20 miles is not hard to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I want a clam chowder pipe straight into the kitchen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deluge/Radarr/Sonarr...How to best delete release group naming BEFORE the filename?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you using sonarr/radarr to do your renaming? I have mine set to patterns that put the release group at the end. It usually has no problem picking up release groups at the beginning (especially for anime, that seems to be pretty common), so by the time it’s auto imported, the filenames have been normalized to standard format with release group at the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see! My metaphor was mainly meant to illustrate that whether anticheat is directly related to the current security issue is orthogonal to why I thought it was relevant to bring up. I could have picked a better one that didn’t imply that their misplaced concern about Linux cheaters actually consumes resources.

  Maybe a better metaphor would be a municipality refusing to do something about a small issue (maybe poor transit to a specific neighborhood) and also actively refusing to let that neighborhood solve the problem themselves (proton devs) with the excuse that allowing that neighborhood to have transit would cost too much (even if the neighborhood were to do it themselves) and cause more crime (painting Linux users as hackers) all the while some completely unrelated group is actually causing the crime elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming this is a good faith question and that you’re not just just trying to play word games: they’re focused on scapegoating Linux by refusing to support it and blaming it for supposedly being a security nightmare. I’m pointing out that this is misplaced obviously because they have bigger concerns, as evidenced by the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s both a form of security, and my point is that they’re focusing on the wrong area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank goodness they refused to support Proton/Linux then because, and this is a direct quote from their ticket tracker: “Linux is an open door for cheaters” 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏳️(TrueNAS) Is my drive dying and should be replaced?🏳️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would replace it. Sometimes I push my luck and for minor or unexpected errors I just clear the error and re-add the drive, but this many errors is likely a solid sign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do you guys buy your 3D print and such at?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I similary only print useful things and tools, and my impression was that paid models seem to be mostly decorative things, whereas the most useful functional prints seem to usually be free. I don’t think I’ve ever paid for a model, but cults has a lot of paid stuff if you want to look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully forgefed (based on activity pub) helps with this - in theory you could use your codeberg account to open issues on repos hosted on other instances. I believe forgejo is working on implementing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's gluetun?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use gluetun to connect specific docker containers to a VPN without interfering with other networking, since it’s all self contained. It also has lots of providers built in which is convenient so you can just set the provider, your password, and your preferred region instead of needing to manually enter connection details manage lists of servers.

  Another nice feature is that it supports scripts for port forwarding, which works out of the box for some providers. So it can automatically get the forwarded port and then execute a custom script to set that port in your torrent client, soulseek, or whatever.

  I could just use a wireguard or openvpn container, but this also makes it easy to hop between vpn providers just by swapping the connection details regardless of whether the providers only support wg or openvpn. Just makes it a little more universal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Supposedly comaps has carplay support as of like 2 months ago, according to a page on their website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone have long range 802.11ah / HaLow experience?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a job for a pair of second hand nanobeams or something similar.

  I second the other commenter who suggested using WISP gear. If you have clear fresnel zones it should work a treat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Route outgoing traffic of a docker bridge network through VPN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I second this. Gluetun makes it so easy, working with docker’s internal networking is such a pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love to see this. It is kinda weird to have to use rolls, but I guess the mechanical complexity of separating sheets and feeding them reliably is not fit for an MVP. I wonder how accurately the cut sheets would stack with individual sheets of another brand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can we now "safely" auto upgrade immich?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily they are on 2.0.1 now so there has been 2 stable version by now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now imagine having a calculator with symbolic math support and the ability to solve derivatives and integrals with unknown variables. And I took that shit into the SAT because the TI Inspire CX CAS was allowed. (Apparently that changed just this year holy moly)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is external libraries maybe what you’re looking for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't zoom on immich⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s already an issue open for it: github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/1713

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A while ago I got tired of tracks going missing from my playlists because of stuff being removed from Spotify so I started buying everything on Bandcamp and then playing it from my jellyfin using finamp.